This is the same issue as https://github.com/lme4/lme4/issues/369 , which I had fixed on a branch but just now got around to pulling into the main development version. If you install the devel version (1.1-13) via devtools::install_github("lme4/lme4" it should work now. (If you need a binary version, let the maintainers know ...)

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